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Topic: Crime in China (Read 2463 times)

Serial murder. As far as I know it hardly ever makes the news, but it definitely exists. Time had an article about it some years ago wherein I discovered my own town had birthed a killer of prostitutes. He lived with his mother and was under surveillance. Something tipped him off and he fled. That is, he moved four hours down the train track and started up killing again. The relevant police departments didn't share files.

Drugs - trafficking and dealing. This certainly exists because south-east asia, but also because precursor drugs are so easy to manufacture and/or acquire in bulk here. Methamphetamine is becoming popular. Ketamine has been popular. Ecstasy, I'm informed, is a city drug.

Forgery - of materials, medicines, devices, you name it.

Armed robbery seems rare, although there was that ex-police guy who was bumping people off at ATMs. How about bank jobs? Jewel theft? Art works?

Prostitution. Natch.

Seems like there's been a rash of teacher as predator articles lately. In the last week or so some teacher was executed for molesting children.

Corruption at various levels and of various kinds.

Car theft? Traffic offences? Vehicular homicide?

Property offences seem rare. I've seldom seen graffiti.

Blowing things up?

I've started wondering because turns out, China is the new thriller location.

Human trafficking and gun running too. The trafficking I don't know much about. Something about stealing and selling children. The gun running has to do with China providing ports of opportunity. Lax customs inspection make transshipping easier here.

just had my 1st child a few days ago (birth, not molestation you perverts!) and the doctor said keep awake all night in case someone comes in and steals your baby, they may be wearing the hospital uniform!

I'm sure there's lots of crime in the right places in China. However...

Here in rural Henan, in the village next to campus, shop keepers will leave palates of goods (beer) unguarded outside on the 'sidewalk' at night covered with just a tarp. In Canada, I can't imagine 1000s of bottles of beer, left in a similar situation lasting for more than two minutes before it was stolen!

My uni students seem to have an almost Leave It To Beaver/Pleasantville-like innocence. I can't be sure, but I'd bet less than 1% have ever even seen a joint... much less done any drugs (other than nicotine & alcohol).

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The Koreans once gave me five minutes notice - I didn't know what to do with the extra time.

In any given year across China, the number of graduating students is something less than 10 million. (I tried looking up stats - couldn't find anything too helpful.) So, there's a lot of them, but there're a lot more people outside this system. Even if their demeanor didn't give them away, number alone mean university students are the prey rather than the predators. Outside of school, there's a whole other world. (I say this not to prove a point - it's just an impression I get constantly, about how kind of airless my experience of "Chinese people" is if I stay only on campus.)

Story time: a girl I knew once did her teaching practice at a local middle school. Seniors had to do some kid of work experience to complete their degrees, and most of them did that. A teacher there - that is, a middle school "teacher", either an actual teacher or a member of the administration - said "if you want to make some extra money...." Turns out he was recruiting for a "tea house". The job was, sit downstairs and chat with the fellows who came in. Oh sure, upstairs there are small rooms with beds, but that's something else entirely....

There's something to the students' fear of "the social". All of them have it, or they used to. They used to talk about "going to society" as some fearful rite of passage.

Such claims are inappropriate, irresponsible and inflammatory. Comparing China's peaceful characteristics without reason to other conditions will not bear scrutiny. Scientific development creates progress, prosperity, and above all, regional peace. Relevant individuals must make sincere apologies.

Alsealso, it occurs to me, "crime" and "criminal" are legal terms. There are any number of political crimes available for prosecution, for instance. Which kind of seems different to what I was looking for.